OSD /C issue

[Stefano Piccardi]

I want to use OSD to show updates from a detached batch script.
Each OSD message should stay on until the next OSD message takes over.
How do I do that, OSD /C doesn't seem to work as I expected. Consider this fragment:

osd /top /right /n 1111
delay 2
osd /c /top /right /n 2222

I think it should show 1111 for 2 seconds then 2222 forever. Instead here it shows 1111 for 2 seconds then nothing (cleared).
I tried several variations but I can't get 2222 to show. It almost seems like option /c is broken, or I don't get it.

 

[vefatica]

On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:12:39 -0500, Stefano Piccardi <>
wrote:

>PHP:
>---------
>osd /top /right /n 1111
>delay 2
>osd /c /top /right /n 2222
>---------
>I think it should show 1111 for 2 seconds then 2222 forever. Instead here it shows 1111 for 2 seconds then nothing (cleared).
>I tried several variations but I can't get 2222 to show. It almost seems like option /c is broken, or I don't get it.

If I put those three lines in a batch file and run it, after the two-second
delay I see the "cancel batch" prompt. And when that happens, WinDbg shows

C++ EH exception - code e06d7363 (first chance)
C++ EH exception - code e06d7363 (first chance)

I don't know what's happening. What you want to do seems reasonable.

 

[Stefano Piccardi]

If I put those three lines in a batch file and run it, after the two-second delay I see the "cancel batch" prompt... I don't know what's happening. What you want to do seems reasonable.

Yes, I had weird things happening with OSD /C, I couldn't even describe some...

 

[Rex Clark]

|I want to use OSD to show updates from a detached batch script.
| Each OSD message should stay on until the next OSD message takes over.
| How do I do that, OSD /C doesn't seem to work as I expected. Consider this
fragment:
|
| PHP:
| ---------
| osd /top /right /n 1111
| delay 2
| osd /c /top /right /n 2222
| ---------
| I think it should show 1111 for 2 seconds then 2222 forever. Instead here
it shows 1111 for 2 seconds then nothing (cleared).
| I tried several variations but I can't get 2222 to show. It almost seems
like option /c is broken, or I don't get it.

osd /top /right /time=seconds /n display text

 

[Rex Clark]

Sorry I should have mentioned i use V8 so i'm not sure about the /c option

 

[Stefano Piccardi]

osd /top /right /time=seconds /n display text

Thank you but this isn't what I need; /time=seconds will remove the OSD after 2 seconds. In my first post I was using delay 2 to signify any arbitrary amount of time that it takes the script to process statements between the first OSD and the next one.

 

[rconn]

Stefano Piccardi wrote:

> I want to use OSD to show updates from a detached batch script.
> Each OSD message should stay on until the next OSD message takes over.
> How do I do that, OSD /C doesn't seem to work as I expected. Consider
> this fragment:
> PHP Code:
> | | osd /top /right /n 1111
> delay 2
> osd /c /top /right /n 2222
> | |
> I think it should show 1111 for 2 seconds then 2222 forever. Instead
> here it shows 1111 for 2 seconds then nothing (cleared).
> I tried several variations but I can't get 2222 to show. It almost seems
> like option /c is broken, or I don't get it.

OSD /C is intended to kill an existing OSD, not to restart another one.
It will not work in combination with any other OSD options.

Rex Conn
JP Software

 

[vefatica]

On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:17:23 -0500, rconn <> wrote:

>OSD /C is intended to kill an existing OSD, not to restart another one.
> It will not work in combination with any other OSD options.

What about OSD /C invoking the "cancel batch" prompt?

 

[Stefano Piccardi]

OSD /C is intended to kill an existing OSD, not to restart another one.
It will not work in combination with any other OSD options.

I think OSD /C attempts to kill the batch file, that's why I don't see any other OSDs following an OSD /C

osd /top /right /n 1111
delay 2
osd /c
osd /time=2 /top /right /n 2222

Results in

C:\boot>alias osd
TCC: Not an alias "osd"

C:\boot>qbat.bat
osd /top /right /n 1111
delay 2
osd /c

Cancel batch job C:\boot\qbat.bat ? (Y/N/A) :

 

[vefatica]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:27:26 -0500, Stefano Piccardi <>
wrote:

>I think OSD /C attempts to kill the batch file, that's why I don't see any other OSDs following an OSD /C
>
>Code:
>---------
>osd /top /right /n 1111
>delay 2
>osd /c
>osd /time=2 /top /right /n 2222
>---------
>Results in
>Code:
>---------
>C:\boot>alias osd
>TCC: Not an alias "osd"
>
>C:\boot>qbat.bat
>osd /top /right /n 1111
>delay 2
>osd /c
>
>Cancel batch job C:\boot\qbat.bat ? (Y/N/A) :

You can get around it with the likes of "ON BREAK DELAY /M 0". If you really
want to use ON BREAK for other purposes you'll have to get fancy, maybe a local
alias to wrap "OSD /C" in its own break handler and restore the old one, or a
"newosd" subroutine that will do the same.

 

[Stefano Piccardi]

You can get around it with the likes of "ON BREAK DELAY /M 0". If you really
want to use ON BREAK for other purposes you'll have to get fancy, maybe a local
alias to wrap "OSD /C" in its own break handler and restore the old one, or a
"newosd" subroutine that will do the same.

Thanks Vince, I have decided to use sysutils:OS in this case.